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fromThe Atlantic
2 days ago

Unconventional Novels About Conventional People

Aging revolutionaries and conformists share parallel narratives of disillusionment and the loss of youthful dreams in recent literature.
fromVulture
5 days ago

'Most of Us Long to Be Elizabeth Bennet, But Actually, We're Mary'

The Other Bennet Sister imagines Mary's life after the conclusion of Pride and Prejudice, sending her on adventures of the heart and soul in the supportive company of her Aunt and Uncle Gardiner.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Sarah Hall: Everyone wangs on about Anna Karenina I've never been able to finish it'

My earliest independent reading memory is The Story of Ferdinand by Leaf and Lawson. I loved that bull! My favourite book growing up Big books gave me the whirlies so it took a while for them to start landing.
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fromEmilysneddon
1 week ago
Typography

Fran Sans Essay - Emily Sneddon

Fran Sans is a display font inspired by the unique destination displays of San Francisco's diverse public transit system.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Permanence by Sophie Mackintosh review high-concept adultery fable

Sophie Mackintosh's novel Permanence explores desire and infidelity through a surreal narrative of a couple trapped in a fantasy world.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
5 days ago

Frankenstein, Jane Eyre and Snow White with a gender-based perspective: The Madwoman in the Attic' and the beginning of feminist literary criticism

The new edition of 'La loca del desvan' revives feminist literary criticism, highlighting the relevance of women's voices in literature today.
#wuthering-heights
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fromThe Nation
1 week ago

The Trouble With Adapting "Wuthering Heights"

Wuthering Heights features multiple narrators, influencing adaptations and interpretations of the novel since its publication.
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fromThe Nation
1 week ago

The Trouble With Adapting "Wuthering Heights"

Wuthering Heights features multiple narrators, influencing adaptations and interpretations of the novel since its publication.
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

Gainsborough's Pride and Prejudice

Lorena Bradford started monthly tours in American Sign Language, established a program for individuals with memory loss, and brought in medical students to learn soft skills to apply in their caregiving. 'I was a sub-department of one,' she joked to writer Emma Cieslik, who spoke with Bradford over Zoom and at the NGA about her own circuitous path into the profession, and the future of the field of museum accessibility.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley review the laureate of bad relationships

Gwendoline Riley's novels transform ordinary lives into something startling, exploring themes of disconnection and complex relationships through spare prose and sharp dialogue.
Psychology
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Readers reply: which are more like life, novels or films?

Films and novels employ fundamentally different narrative techniques to convey character psychology, with neither medium inherently more realistic than the other due to their diverse stylistic approaches.
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fromHarper's Magazine
1 week ago

Intimate Difference, by Jasmine Liu, Christine Smallwood

Siblinghood is portrayed in literature through various dynamics, influencing identity and relationships in works like Antigone and The Metamorphosis.
Writing
fromBig Think
2 weeks ago

The medieval "love story" that was really a tale of psychological abuse

Resilience is essential in facing challenges, as exemplified by Odysseus and Penelope's enduring hope and strength during their long separations.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

A new Austen drama made me wonder: is the fate of bookish young women really so different today? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

To be a clever, bookish teenage girl is to spend a certain amount of time standing on the sidelines, feeling invisible to boys. There seemed to be a natural division: you could be smart or pretty, but you could not be both.
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fromInsideHook
3 weeks ago

The Sensational 19th-Century Adaptation That's Not "Wuthering Heights"

The Count of Monte Cristo PBS adaptation is an exceptional book-to-screen adaptation featuring an Oscar-winning director and acclaimed actors bringing Alexandre Dumas's 1840s classic to thrilling life.
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fromBustle
1 week ago

The 10 Best New Books About Women Breaking The Mold

Successful women often defy expectations, and quieter forms of rebellion deserve recognition alongside visible rule-breakers.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

Today's Atlantic Trivia: Charles Dickens

The nighttime disorder formerly known as 'Pickwickian syndrome' is now called sleep apnea.
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fromQueerty
1 month ago

This Victorian era teen lesbian love affair ended in murder, consumption... & an opera - Queerty

Alice Mitchell murdered her lover Freda Ward in 1892 Memphis, shocking Victorian society with evidence of a passionate lesbian relationship between two middle-class women.
Arts
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

The Captivating Saga Behind the Only Known Portrait of the Bronte Sisters

The Brontë sisters' literary legacy continues captivating audiences nearly two centuries after their deaths, experiencing renewed popularity through contemporary adaptations and international exhibitions.
Music
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Why music has become such a big part of the romance novel reading experience

Romance novel readers increasingly use pop music playlists to enhance their reading experiences, creating a community that bridges book fandom and music fandom, exemplified by Charli XCX's Wuthering Heights album.
#film-adaptation
Film
fromVulture
1 month ago

'The Bronte Sisters Are Rolling in Their Graves'

Emerald Fennell's provocative reimagining of Wuthering Heights with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi provoked debate over casting, racial politics, explicit content, and audience reactions.
Film
fromThe Independent
1 month ago

Wuthering Heights has torn the Independent's culture desk apart

Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights adaptation provokes sharply divided reactions, praised for Martin Clunes yet criticized for style that diminishes emotional depth.
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fromThe Nation
1 month ago

The Bad Vibes of "Wuthering Heights"

Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights prioritizes contemporary aesthetic over literary faithfulness, reducing Brontë's complex novel to a shallow love story that reflects modern short attention spans rather than engaging with the source material's depth.
#romance-tropes
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fromScary Mommy
2 weeks ago

Why Do Women Love Romance Tropes That Would Be Red Flags IRL? Experts Explain

Women enjoy romance tropes featuring controlling behavior, stalking, and morally gray characters because books reveal characters' benign intentions and safe outcomes, allowing safe exploration of intense emotions impossible in real life.
Books
fromScary Mommy
2 weeks ago

Why Do Women Love Romance Tropes That Would Be Red Flags IRL? Experts Explain

Women enjoy romance tropes featuring controlling behavior, stalking, and morally gray characters because books reveal characters' benign intentions and safe outcomes, allowing safe exploration of intense emotions impossible in real life.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Better than Wuthering Heights? The Brontes' novels ranked!

Charlotte Brontë's debut novel The Professor was rejected nine times before publication, while her second novel Jane Eyre achieved immediate success, and Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey drew authentically from her governess experience.
Writing
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Virginia Woolf and the Reclaiming of Attention

Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness technique demonstrates how attention shapes consciousness and remains relevant to contemporary struggles against digital distraction.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Almost Life by Kiran Millwood Hargrave review a will-they-won't-they queer romance

Almost Life chronicles a decades-long romance between two women beginning in 1970s Paris, exploring queer love, missed opportunities, and the consequences of life choices across different social contexts.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Burn Your Romance Novels!

The short answer is yes, unless you take fiction for what it is-fiction. When you long for something you don't have, it can lead to dissatisfaction with what you DO have. Romantic fiction has witty, heartfelt dialogue, buckets of romantic gestures, and protagonists who have a preternatural ability to read each other's minds. It's easy to forget it is not real. This can set up unrealistic expectations both conscious and unconscious.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Critics at Large Live: "Wuthering Heights" and Its Afterlives

James Lorimer, writing in the North British Review, promised that the novel would 'never be generally read.' Nearly two centuries later, it's regarded as one of the great works of English literature.
Film
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

A Romance That Actually Takes Sex Seriously

When I first heard of Heated Rivalry, I didn't think much about it. The words Canadian ice-hockey TV series slid into my brain and slipped right back out. But a week later, approximately everyone I'd ever met wanted to talk about it. People kept telling me that it was fun, sweet, and addicting. Most of all, they emphasized that it was really smutty. Every recommendation seemed to come with a warning to not watch with my parents.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Saba Sams: I've no interest in reading Wuthering Heights again'

Jacqueline Wilson's unflinching approach to children's literature, alongside works by authors like Gwendoline Riley and Clarice Lispector, demonstrates that literary courage and emotional complexity resonate more powerfully than conventional safety or virtuousness.
#booktok
fromSlate Magazine
4 weeks ago
Books

Something Strange Is Happening With Books. It Could Reshape Literary Culture.

BookTok readers increasingly prefer first-person narrative perspective in romance and fantasy novels, viewing third-person narration as unnecessarily complex and off-putting.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago
Books

Love, desire and community: the new generation of readers bonding over romance novels

Australian online book communities have rapidly grown since 2020, driving pop-up events, fan merchandise and a young, predominantly female romance and romantasy readership.
Books
fromSlate Magazine
4 weeks ago

Something Strange Is Happening With Books. It Could Reshape Literary Culture.

BookTok readers increasingly prefer first-person narrative perspective in romance and fantasy novels, viewing third-person narration as unnecessarily complex and off-putting.
fromThe Atlantic
4 weeks ago

Pushing the Limits of Historical Fiction

Enrigue's 'penchant for shooting the facts of history through the prism of the absurd' makes him singular-but it also puts him firmly in a long literary tradition. The book 'distills a byzantine swirl of historical events through the lives of a handful of very colorful characters,' intertwining several real and invented incidents with major moments in the Apache Wars, a series of skirmishes involving Native Americans, the U.S., and Mexico across the Southwest borderlands.
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Film
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Why the 'Wuthering Heights' Movie Is Infantilizing

American politics and popular culture are dominated by juvenile, sensational impulses summarized by the phrase 'everyone is twelve'.
Film
fromJezebel
1 month ago

Lazy? Ridiculous? Choke-on-Your-Tongue Hot? Jezebel Debates 'Wuthering Heights'

The film's sexual content is muted and vanilla with no nudity, prompting viewers to desire more erotic intensity despite strong performances and a praised soundtrack.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

How to Put Sex in a Novel

Contemporary literary fiction increasingly avoids depicting heterosexual intimacy while queer novelists freely explore sex's complexities, as exemplified by Jan Saenz's unconventional novel about selling experimental orgasm-inducing pills.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

When Did Literature Get Less Dirty?

Philip Roth's Zuckerman Unbound functioned as a response to the controversial reception of Portnoy's Complaint, with Roth's protagonist expressing regret over writing sexually explicit material that drew accusations of anti-Semitism and misogyny.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Ben Markovits: I used to think any book concerned with people falling in love can't be very good'

Reading shaped formative years through detective stories, fantasy epics, and memoirs that provided companionship and escape during frequent moves and family transitions.
#emerald-fennell
Film
fromVulture
1 month ago

Finally, a Smooth-Brained Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights emphasizes tactile, erotic visuals and lush spectacle, trading sustained thematic depth for provocative, bodily cinematic moments.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Sarah Moss: I never liked Wuthering Heights as much as Jane Eyre'

Early reading experiences and family support shaped lasting literary tastes, identity, and critical awareness, prompting later reassessments of values and perspectives.
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fromwww.nytimes.com
1 month ago

Romance Glossary: An A-Z Guide of Tropes and Themes to Find Your Next Book

Lists 101 romance-genre terms (e.g., cinnamon roll, shadow daddy, fae) to help readers identify subgenres and find recommended books.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

8 romance novels for readers who love science, too

Romantic novels blend rigorous science and emotional narrative across diverse settings, balancing scientific detail with humor, satire, and varied genre influences.
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fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

The Gospel According to Emily Henry

Emily Henry channels rom-com sensibility and religious upbringing to create a fresh, cinematic-influenced romance novel blending humor, nostalgia, and emotional depth.
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fromBustle
1 month ago

The Surprisingly Hot Case for Condoms in Romance Novels

Including condoms and sexual safety in romance novels normalizes protection and can influence readers' real-world sexual behavior and expectations.
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fromianVisits
2 months ago

Fans, Frigates and Flirtation: Jane Austen's world in Greenwich exhibitions

Two Greenwich exhibitions reveal contrasting Georgian life aspects: fashionable social rituals via decorated fans and naval, personal histories through Austen brothers' maritime documents.
#gothic-romance
fromVulture
2 months ago

Yes, Wuthering Heights Is a 'Hurlevent'

"Hurlevent": Is that like when you watch 28 Years Later? Is it some kind of French adjective that's like, "This movie is so emotional you'll cry until you yak"? Even so, why would the cast and crew of the film take photos in front of a random word and not, say, the title of the film? These questions, while well-intentioned, proved very stupid:
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fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

Tessa Hadley on the Power of Memory

A lasting friendship rests on shared sensibility, mutual trust to perceive and understand, and an affinity of insight beyond mere shared experiences.
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